African Cinema and Human Rights

African Cinema and Human Rights
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9780253039460
ISBN-13 : 0253039460
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis African Cinema and Human Rights by : Mette Hjort

Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communities; legitimating, and consequently solidifying, an expanded scope for human rights; and promoting the realization of social and economic rights. Including the voices of African scholars, scholar-filmmakers, African directors Jean-Marie Teno and Gaston Kaboré, and researchers whose work focuses on transnational cinema, this volume explores overall perspectives, and differences of perspective, pertaining to Africa, human rights, and human rights filmmaking alongside specific case studies of individual films and areas of human rights violations. With its interdisciplinary scope, attention to practitioners' self-understandings, broad perspectives, and particular case studies, African Cinema and Human Rights is a foundational text that offers questions, reflections, and evidence that help us to consider film's ideal role within the context of our ever-continuing struggle towards a more just global society.

A Companion to African Cinema

A Companion to African Cinema
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : 9781119100317
ISBN-13 : 1119100313
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to African Cinema by : Kenneth W. Harrow

An authoritative guide to African cinema with contributions from a team of experts on the topic A Companion to African Cinema offers an overview of critical approaches to African cinema. With contributions from an international panel of experts, the Companion approaches the topic through the lens of cultural studies, contemporary transformations in the world order, the rise of globalization, film production, distribution, and exhibition. This volume represents a new approach to African cinema criticism that once stressed the sociological and sociopolitical aspects of a film. The text explores a wide range of broad topics including: cinematic economics, video movies, life in cinematic urban Africa, reframing human rights, as well as more targeted topics such as the linguistic domestication of Indian films in the Hausa language and the importance of female African filmmakers and their successes in overcoming limitations caused by gender inequality. The book also highlights a comparative perspective of African videoscapes of Southern Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Côte d’Ivoire and explores the rise of Nairobi-based Female Filmmakers. This important resource: Puts the focus on critical analyses that take into account manifestations of the political changes brought by neocolonialism and the waning of the cold war Explores Examines the urgent questions raised by commercial video about globalization Addresses issues such as funding, the acquisition of adequate production technologies and apparatuses, and the development of adequately trained actors Written for film students and scholars, A Companion to African Cinema offers a look at new critical approaches to African cinema.

Focus on African Films

Focus on African Films
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 0253216680
ISBN-13 : 9780253216687
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Focus on African Films by : Françoise Pfaff

'Focus on African Films' offers pluralistic perspectives on filmmaking across Africa, highlighting the distinct thematic, stylistic, and socioeconomic circumstances of African film production.

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9780253066541
ISBN-13 : 0253066549
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers by : Suzanne Crosta

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African cinemas. Featuring 10 chapters from prominent film scholars, it explores the distinctive documentary work and contributions of Francophone African women filmmakers since the 1960s. It focuses documentaries by North African and Sub-Saharan women filmmakers, including the pioneering work of Safi Faye in Kaddu Beykat, Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Katy Lena Ndiaye's Le Cercle des noyes and En attendant les hommes, Dalila Ennadre's Fama: Heroism Without Glory and Leila Kitani's Nos lieux interdits. Shunned from costly fictional- 35mm-filmmaking, Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers examines how these women engaged and experimented with documentary filmmaking in personal, evocative ways that countered the officially sanctioned, nationalist practice of show and teach/promote.

Contemporary African Cinema

Contemporary African Cinema
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Publisher : MSU Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9781628952704
ISBN-13 : 1628952709
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Contemporary African Cinema by : Olivier Barlet

African and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period has seen African cinema forging a new relationship with the real and implementing new aesthetic strategies, as well as the emergence of a post-colonial popular cinema. Drawing on more than 1,500 articles, reviews, and interviews written over the past fifteen years, Olivier Barlet identifies the critical questions brought about by the evolution of African cinema. In the process, he offers us a personal and passionate vision, making this book an indispensable sum of thought that challenges preconceived ideas and enriches an approach to cinema as a critical art.

African Cinema

African Cinema
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Publisher : Africa World Press
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 0865436975
ISBN-13 : 9780865436978
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis African Cinema by : Kenneth W. Harrow

This collection of essays deals directly and compellingly with contemporary issues in African cinema. In particular, they address key aspects of post-colonialism and feminism - the two major topics of interest in current criticism of African films - but coverage is also given to spectatorship, national identity, ethnography, patriarchy, and the creation of key film industries in developing countries.

Questioning African Cinema

Questioning African Cinema
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 1452905827
ISBN-13 : 9781452905822
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Questioning African Cinema by : Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike

African Cinema, Neoliberal Narratives and the Right of Necessity

African Cinema, Neoliberal Narratives and the Right of Necessity
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781527579316
ISBN-13 : 152757931X
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis African Cinema, Neoliberal Narratives and the Right of Necessity by : Olivier J. Tchouaffe

African cinema offers a distinctive contribution to world cinema with its unique expertise of neoliberal genealogy and its opposition to those ubiquitous logics that serve only to validate injustices and regression made in the name of managerial liberalism. It provides a deft analysis of the common thread running through globalization, free-market fanaticism, corporate greed and its asymmetrical economic dominance that naturalizes a global caste system. This book shows that African cinema represents a powerful contribution to our understanding of neoliberalism’s global dominance that generates shrinking security, multiple recessions and endless austerity, and a culture of permanent anxiety and precarity.

Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema

Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9781838718428
ISBN-13 : 1838718427
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema by : June Givanni

In the conference Africa and the History of Cinematic Ideas held in London in 1995, film-makers, cultural theorists and critics gathered to debate a range of issues. Views were exchanged on such topics as imperialism, and the problems of distribution.

African Film

African Film
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 025334350X
ISBN-13 : 9780253343505
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis African Film by : Josef Gugler

In African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides an introduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by African filmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its people. As a point of comparison, two additional films on Africa--one from Hollywood, the other from apartheid South Africa--serve to highlight African directors' altogether different perspectives. Gugler's interpretation considers the financial and technical difficulties of African film production, the intended audiences in Africa and the West, the constraints on distribution, and the critical reception of the films.